Business Management A1 Marius Philippus Honiball Student Number: 123708 Bachelor of Commerce Information and Technology Management Table of Contents Question 1.1……………………………………………………………… 2 Question 1.2……………………………………………………………… 2 Question 1.3……………………………………………………………… 3 Question 2.1…………………………………………………………….... 3 Question 2.2…………….………………………………………………… 4 Question 3………………………………………………………………… 6 Question 4.1………………………………………………………………. 7 Question 4.2………………………………………………………………. 7 Question 4.3………………………………………………………………
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Management is the process of reaching organizational goals by working with and through people and other organizational resources. Management has the following 3 characteristics: 1. It is a process or series of continuing and related activities. 2. It involves and concentrates on reaching organizational goals. 3. It reaches these goals by working with and through people and other organizational resources. MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS: The 4 basic management functions that make up the management
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Summary Human Resource Management Chapters 1‚2‚4‚5‚6‚16 Chapter 1: Gaining a Competitive Advantage * Competiveness ability to maintain share in industry (related to effectiveness) * Human Resource Management policies‚ practices‚ systems that influence employees’ behaviour‚ attitude and performance analysing and design of work‚ planning‚ recruiting‚ selection‚ training‚ compensation‚ performance management‚ employee relations * HRM practices should be strategic * HR has 3
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right to make decisions‚ issue orders‚ and allocate resources to achieve organization’s objectives. Types of authority include line‚ functional‚ and staff. * Organizational concepts such as tall vs. flat structures‚ the presence of centralization‚ decentralization‚ and formalization can affect management control and decision-making. In organizations‚ planning is also a management process‚ concerned with defining goals for company’s future direction and determining on the missions and resources
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the difference of organization structure and culture‚ as well as management style between Swedish and American IKEA‚ the outcomes have been achieved are: - The organizational structure favored by Swedish is flat decentralization and informal‚ whereas American likes tall‚ centralization and formal structure. - The 5 factors which influence individual behavior at work in IKEA stores in Sweden and in the USA are: personality‚ perception‚ attitude stress and learning. - From fives organizational
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take precedence over the interests of the organization as a whole. 7. Remuneration: Payment is an important motivator although by analyzing a number of possibilities‚ Fayol points out that there is no such thing as a perfect system. 8. Centralization (or
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ASSIGNMENTS PROGRAM:MBA 2yrs SEMESTER-I Subject Name : Management Functions & Behavior Batch : Permanent Enrollment Number (PEN) : Roll Number : Student Name : INSTRUCTIONS a) Students are required to submit all three assignment sets. ASSIGNMENT Assignment A Assignment B Assignment C DETAILS Five Subjective Questions Three Subjective Questions + Case Study 40 Objective Questions MARKS 10 10 10 b) c) d) e) Total weightage given to these assignments is 30%. OR 30 Marks All assignments are to be
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Matt Torres Dr. Cay Hehner Modern New York November 1‚ 2012 Research Paper The history of the urban utopia arose when theorists and city planners decided that a radical reconstruction of their cities (Venturi 4) was needed. There are problems that arose in cities of every generation and these problems have sparked the minds of the greatest thinkers‚ planner‚ architects‚ and theorists of the 19th century. These were the first attempts at correcting the problems that we deal with today. Problems
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Authority Authority means the legitimate or acceptable use of power. “If an order given by a leader to a member of his group is accepted by the member and controls his activity in the group‚ then the order is said to carry authority” C.I Barnard Authority means the ability to control the behavior of others. Authority is a symbolic reality and it is the ability to influence person’s actions in a desired direction without resorting to force. The most important earthly influence in a person ’s life
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STUDY INFORMATION SYSTEMS AT MRS. FIELD’S COOKIES COURSE: ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY AND DESIGN INSTRUCTOR: MR. FAISAL QURESHI DAY OF CLASS: FRIDAY/SUNDAY Q1) Describe Mrs. Field’s cookies in terms of its complexity‚ formalization and centralization. Complexity: Complexity refers to the degree of differentiation that exists within an organization. The three factors that affect complexity are horizontal‚ vertical‚ and spatial differentiation. An increase in any one of these three factors
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